All the investors are getting the special dividend. Sorry your grubby little paws couldn't get a grip on a greater part of it, government.

All shareholders benefit from the dividends, of course. But some of the biggest beneficiaries are corporate insiders and large shareholders. The companies paying accelerated dividends have an average insider ownership of 27 percent - higher than the broadermarket, according to Markit

All the investors are getting the special dividend. Sorry your grubby little paws couldn't get a grip on a greater part of it, government.

I'm just surprised that they haven't figured out some legal way to only pay dividends to the big shots, and not the small investors. That would make the most sense from the psycopathic corporate viewpoint.They need to spend some of that money on better lawyers and lobbyists.

jayhawk88:But I was told that CEO's used all that extra money to plow right back into their businesses!

But I was told companies are just "sitting on" that money (whatever that means). These special dividends should be great because it means companies actually have to go to the vault or mattress or wherever these vast hoards of cash are supposedly being sat on and put them back in the economy.

jso2897:AverageAmericanGuy: Here we go. Nothing like a good class warfare thread.

All the investors are getting the special dividend. Sorry your grubby little paws couldn't get a grip on a greater part of it, government.

I'm just surprised that they haven't figured out some legal way to only pay dividends to the big shots, and not the small investors. That would make the most sense from the psycopathic corporate viewpoint.They need to spend some of that money on better lawyers and lobbyists.

Alphax:'Dividend Cliff'.. so their ability to suck massive amounts of capital out of the economy would be slightly slowed, once the 'temporary' Bush tax cuts expire. They make it sound like a bad thing.

Debeo Summa Credo:Alphax: 'Dividend Cliff'.. so their ability to suck massive amounts of capital out of the economy would be slightly slowed, once the 'temporary' Bush tax cuts expire. They make it sound like a bad thing.

wraith95:Debeo Summa Credo: Alphax: 'Dividend Cliff'.. so their ability to suck massive amounts of capital out of the economy would be slightly slowed, once the 'temporary' Bush tax cuts expire. They make it sound like a bad thing.

Debeo Summa Credo:wraith95: Debeo Summa Credo: Alphax: 'Dividend Cliff'.. so their ability to suck massive amounts of capital out of the economy would be slightly slowed, once the 'temporary' Bush tax cuts expire. They make it sound like a bad thing.

Debeo Summa Credo:Jake Havechek: Another asshole born on third who thinks he hit a triple.

The rich in America have it pretty good. Look at the tax rates in England, for example.

In other words, "Gimme".

/so much bitter envy in this thread

It's not envy fartknocker, its compassion for people who suffer. I don't care if Adelson buys a newspaper and tries to influence public opinion, I do care if someone who works for him has to go into bankruptcy to pay his medical bills.

This is what matters, not the income tax rates. The huge gap between the upper income tax rate and the capital gains tax means that the wealthy pay a lower effective rate than high income earners who are trying to become established, and the super wealthy pay a lower effective rate than the middle class.

Alphax:coffee smells good: I see the article doesn't mention the god of the far left, COSTCO. They're borrowing $3B so they can pay a special one time $7/ dividend ahead of the Obama Care tax increase.

Ahead of the what?

Part of the almost tripling in taxes on dividend in 2013 has to do with the new taxes from the ACA (Obama Care) that kick in.

Boy, it sure is a good thing these poor, put-upon billionaires have a whole political party bending over backwards to protect them from having to shoulder any of the costs of recovery... These folks have no one to speak for them except the brave souls in the GOP, who know the poor and middle classes should be paying for the avarice of the wealthy elite; Poor persecuted victims of crass class warfare that they are.

Debeo Summa Credo:Alphax: 'Dividend Cliff'.. so their ability to suck massive amounts of capital out of the economy would be slightly slowed, once the 'temporary' Bush tax cuts expire. They make it sound like a bad thing.

SomeAmerican:Debeo Summa Credo: Alphax: 'Dividend Cliff'.. so their ability to suck massive amounts of capital out of the economy would be slightly slowed, once the 'temporary' Bush tax cuts expire. They make it sound like a bad thing.